Stalkers are more overpowered than anything else!!
TG is pretty bang on the money, stalkers are squishy and you know the have to be beside you to get their attack in.
As far as balance goes that alpha strike is their AT's on ebig thing. Tankers big thing is their defence, its quite scary seeing how much damage a prepared tanker can take.
As for the TPing away? Well I think for most people with PvP builds teleport is rapidly becoming the travel power of choice.
Hey, it's just my opinion guys. And an opinion based on my view from both sides of the fence.
I have played in PvP as a level 50 Empath, a level 38 Blaster and a Level 28 Regen Scrapper. The ONLY Archetype I've ever had trouble with is the Stalker.
And I still think if you need to go to all that prep, including rolling a specialist Stalker Hunter and getting into a team that is well practised and has all the right specific team players in place..... just to take down a stalker...
Well there's a balance issue.
I don't have any trouble with any other archetype. Sometimes I get killed and then I just re-think my tactics and try again. And as I stated to those that read the post properly, this wasn't an in-experienced team.
I also play a Stalker in CoV (I actually have 2 of them), and albiet while it's not a massivley high level yet, I do have a handle on what they can and can't do.
I'll agree that they are weak, but not as weak as some make out. The AS isn't anywhere near as inaccurate as some people make out either (at least not in my experience). My Stalker can AS, hit with the secondary strike and fade away again within about 10 secs. That's a very very very small window for an ambushed opponent to fight back in.
I know all the Stalker players really fear the NerfBat and there's alot of justification for them staying as they are and people complaining that we're moaning about them. If you'd read the original post (and it's addendum) properly you'd also see I'm not asking for nerfs. Personally I like my Stalker the way he is too and I'd be annoyed at Nerfs too. But I'm willing to stand up and admit that I can (literally) get away with murder most of the time with him.
I'm not asking for Nerfs and I'm not moaning, just commenting that I think that PvP is unbalanced in my opinion and my experience.
You don't have to agree with me, it's just my 2 inf worth.
Blueside Level 50's.... Knightingale (Def), Rogue Elevenex (Blast), Lady Rogue (Scrap), Mr Infinity (Tank), Miss Infinity (Troller), Knight.Shade (WS), Knight.Bringer (PB)
Redside Level 50's... Colonel Rogue (Brute), Sergeant Domino (Stalk), F411-OUT (Dom)
Next Project: Psiryn Psi/Psi Cor Global Handle is @Knightingale
Hmmmm Knight i not say i disagree with you or anything i just say how i see the stalkers from my point of view.
And that's cool with me TG. 
I'm sure neither of us are alone in our thinking. I'm sure there's plenty of people who feel and think the same as us both. But I figure that that's what these forums are here for. To voice our opinions and feelings on certain subjects.
As I said I'm happily playing my own Stalker characters in CoV now in order to find out more about them. And I'd encourage other people who feel as I do about Stalkers to do the same.
I created a Claws/Regen Stalker (I have a Martial Arts/Regen Scrapper in CoH) as I thought it would be a good comparison. Thus far in my opinion while my damage output isn't quite as high as my Scrapper, I haven't found my Stalker to be particularly inaccurate or particularly squishee. I'd agree that they aren't on a par with their Scrapper counterparts, my Stalker for instance can in no way go toe to toe with large mobs like my Scrapper can, but in my experience they aren't as far away as some suggest. And I'm not even sure what I'm doing with my Stalker. I'm positive he'd not slotted and enhanced to his optimum build as I'm kinda winging it.
Of course I haven't tested my Stalker in PvP properly yet so that will be the acid test I guess. Till then I will somewhat reserve judgement.
I'm very much trying to see things from both sides of the fence. Admittedly my experience so far is very much from the Hero side and the frustration Stalkers cause me and my teammates (although some of them seem to take a masochistic delight in dying at the hands of Stalkers alot.... I'm looking at you Snowy!!! lol).
But just like any of the other nerfs, patches, ED's etc that have been thrown at us I'll happily work within the system and try and find ways around these things. I WILL find a way to beat a Stalker with my squishee blaster.
All I'm saying is that I can't think of another Archetype that needs as much prep from a full team and a serious addiction to insps. All are valid tactics and in some cases I'm sure it works just fine. But that still strikes me as unbalanced in my opinion.
But please don't anyone accuse me of being biaised. I've tried both, and this is currently the way I see it. That may change in time as I develop my Stalker further and maybe try him out properly in PvP. I'll keep you all posted. hehe
Blueside Level 50's.... Knightingale (Def), Rogue Elevenex (Blast), Lady Rogue (Scrap), Mr Infinity (Tank), Miss Infinity (Troller), Knight.Shade (WS), Knight.Bringer (PB)
Redside Level 50's... Colonel Rogue (Brute), Sergeant Domino (Stalk), F411-OUT (Dom)
Next Project: Psiryn Psi/Psi Cor Global Handle is @Knightingale
Ahhhh Stalk-obot.... he who was my Arch Nemesis in PvP the other night. LOL#
You must have tagged me about 5 or 6 times the other day, all of them while I was in flight and stealthed (yeah I know it's not great but it's all I've got! ). Love to know how you did that. You should have heard me on TS cursing your name to Hades. LOL
I know I tagged you with Snipes and blasts a few times but could never quite nail you. Slippery little so and so.
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Each and every AT is what you make it and I know Controllers and Defenders who are nigh on impossible to pin down in Sirens Call, also plenty of ATs have PBAOEs and things like ice and fire rain which takes out the hide/AS which is fundamental to the buildand turns a hidden assassin into an exposed squishy.
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Well to be fair we did try those tactics on you. We had in turns both a Fire Tank (Firey Rose) and an Ice Tank ( Ice Rose) in the team with us and you managed to still get AS on both of them despite all the flamey and icey bits and bobs being thrown around. We even had our illusion controller throw pets at you.
Granted I've not really played CoV from a villain PoV so I'll reserve judgment on how hard Defenders or Controllers are until then. But my Empath has the same problems with Stalkers in PvP and we had the mighty Synasta (Illusion Controller level 50) in the team too and he was just as vulnerable.
As I say though, I'll get some serious levels on my own Stalker and try it out myself before I pass judgement.
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I dont see why people moan on and on on the same things, I dont whinge about storm controllers, I made a specific build to take them down and from the same logic I could certainly build a stalker hunter. Think it through and you can find a way through anything."
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Which is fine if you want to be solely a PvP player. Then create a PvP toon. But most of us play CoH or CoV most of the time and just dip into the PvP zones for a bit of fun. Are we seriously expected to spec our alts specifically for PvP just to be successful in there ? I don't ever see me really and truly respeccing any of my toons simply with PvP in mind and I'd wager most players don't either. Could be wrong of course....
And I'd still maintain that any archetype that needs to have another archetype specifically tailored from scratch to take them down is a sign that the game is inherently unbalanced towards that archetype. Again just my opinion.
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All the regular people I pvp with in Sirens call are an awesome bunch and we have a lot of fun but no of us stand around whinging about each others advantages.
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I'd agree. I do often quite enjoy PvP. And I never ever whinge or moan. You'll notice that that day you took me down repeatedly I said nothing at all on the chat channels. (OK your name was mud on TS as I swore like a trooper!!) But in the game itself I was fair game, you played your Stalker exceedingly well and I died repeatedly. That's the game and I accept that. I'm a nice chap and I would never moan or whinge over the chat channels.
But at the same time I do find being repeatedly taken down by stalkers who I don't seem to do anything about. In the end rather than moan about it I just left to blow of some steam playing DoW instead.
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I actually think the balance in PVP is very good, if people have problems its generally experience, lack of practice and build.
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I'll admit to a lack of experience to a degree in PvP. I haven't logged many hours. But I was in a team full of high levelled characters many of whom have been playing since very early in the year (Feb for me). We know our toons and we know how to handle them. I think it's a bigger issue than just a lack of experience and I think that's underselling the issue.
What happens if you aren't Stalker hunting and are engaged in battle at a hotspot or with another Villain ??
People say just keep moving for instance. But you can't do that. A patient stalker can just follow Rogue around unseen till I initiate my Snipe function in a completely seperate battle. For this I HAVE to be stationary and the animation time is long. Wham!! One AS and follow up later I'm dead.
My defender often has to stand or hover near my team while I'm healing them during the hotspot battles. Wham!! One AS and a follow up later and I'm dead.
These aren't stupid rookie errors. These are necessary moments in the game when I HAVE to be stationary to do my job or perform a particular power. The patient stalker just bides his/her time and waits for those moments. The attacks come without warning and without any possible defence.
Popping all the insps in the world to increase perception doesn't help much if you are tied up tangling with someone else. It also requires visiting your local insp seller every few minutes to stock up again. In that hour the other night I must have burnt through hundreds of Insights. Sometimes they helped see stalkers, sometimes not. And even when they did they were little help. I'd snipe and they'd run and lick their wounds.
Now I'm not saying that that is cowardly, I'd do exactly the same thing in that position. It's an ability and you are quite right, you use the powers you've got to the best of your ability to keep yourself alive. Simple as that.
But for pretty much the whole Hour or so I was in Sirens call it was you and another Stalker who were ALWAYS top of the Most Wanted list. I think that in itself tells you something important about the power of Stalkers in PvP.
Either that or you personally are just too darned good.
Sorry about the length of these posts, I'm VERY bored at work doing a job I currently hate. I have to vent that boredom and frustration somewhere. hehe
Blueside Level 50's.... Knightingale (Def), Rogue Elevenex (Blast), Lady Rogue (Scrap), Mr Infinity (Tank), Miss Infinity (Troller), Knight.Shade (WS), Knight.Bringer (PB)
Redside Level 50's... Colonel Rogue (Brute), Sergeant Domino (Stalk), F411-OUT (Dom)
Next Project: Psiryn Psi/Psi Cor Global Handle is @Knightingale
It's good to put yourself into other ATs to find their strengths and weaknesses because it makes you a better PvPer overall. You'll definately learn something, if not for your own character but if you know who you're fighting you can avoid their strengths and expose their weaknesses.
Perhaps an arrangement to meet up in Bloody Bay or somewhere similar to actually test ATs for both heroes and villains? As a stalker I feel that I can hide from most enemies but I don't know actually know what the hero sees, if they really can see me. So learning more will make it worthwhile.
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hmmmmm stalker tbh is quite weak AT and has nothing else to do than constantly try to land a kill from single left out players. A stalker is doomed in teams that know what they are doing and i usually just ignore the stalkers until nothing else is left to kill. Then all i do is trap em which is the easiest thing to do cause they need melee. The other major disadvantage is that all stalkers now seem to go for the energy set to avoid tp foe well i got news for them and here is how to take them down. Use intimidate as an open move on them and a -fly move and they are pinned on the ground helpless from that point on they are just cannon fodder for the team. I usually not care about stalkers when i got an empath on team since the 3rchrg cm that is the current max efficiency for pvp for empath allows us an insane amount of cm stacking for the tp belt...so we pretty much see them all. Stalker is actually a doomed set in team PvP with very limited use to scrap away lonely targets. In a compact team this is highly unlikely.
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I disagree 
, in a team my Stalker is a precision instrument at times and a contoller-killer at others. Having a team playing distraction enables me to rely less on my stealth and hide and can get criticals with impale on key figures with less worry about being targeted by said players. It does change the team dynamics but i think a good stalker is able to adapt and not have to rely solely on AS (just AS and impale ) As for -fly, its annoying as hell but my secondary travel power is always on for a speedy getaway
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Good to see you are trying out the AT for yourself, its much harder to play than people imagine and have a definitive strategic element that only this AT has in pvp. Once you have played it you will see its not the uber character people on the receiving end of AS think it is
As for Sirens Call sorry about that There are a couple of pretty good stalkers who haunt that place and I hope I am one of them, I worked hard to get a good build on my stalker and sacrificed virtually all defence to enable me to utilize numerous pool powers to get those who are out of range of most stalkers (most dont have fly and SS for example )
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Well to be fair we did try those tactics on you. We had in turns both a Fire Tank (Firey Rose) and an Ice Tank ( Ice Rose) in the team with us and you managed to still get AS on both of them despite all the flamey and icey bits and bobs being thrown around. We even had our illusion controller throw pets at you.
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Getting through the PBAOES like on Ice and Fiery Rose isnt easy I can assure you, and I had to abort assaults on these players numerous times
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I'd agree. I do often quite enjoy PvP. And I never ever whinge or moan. You'll notice that that day you took me down repeatedly I said nothing at all on the chat channels. (OK your name was mud on TS as I swore like a trooper!!) But in the game itself I was fair game, you played your Stalker exceedingly well and I died repeatedly. That's the game and I accept that. I'm a nice chap and I would never moan or whinge over the chat channels.
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lol, nope I didnt get any nasty messages from you in the game itself and will try to take the abuse my name received on teamspeak as a badge of honour Its good to maintain niceties in the game because it just ruins it for everyone if it goes sour. I always try to get everyone that goes in Sirens to TURN ON HERO/VILLAIN CHAT in order to help with the pleasant atmosphere that we usually have.
I do also admit my character is a huge compromise, he is a dedicated pvp build and is very squishy in missions but I really am enjoying the interaction of PVP at the moment, I prefer to go against real intelligence instead of the AI of the missions and enjoy the social interaction also. A lot of people do spec their toons to PVP (or hami spec) when they get to 50, I personally have took my empathy in and out of Hami spec about 5 times but you are right not everyone does or should, its down to what you want out of the game, pvp is not for everyone neither is roleplay (no interest in this) but we all have our own little quirks
I concur you are not making any mistakes per se but there are other things you can do, stand in someones pbaoe is a good one for example. I usually try to form teams in Sirens to give advise to less experienced players/stalkers and you would be surprised just how often their name goes black and we get tells asking how the hell we are staying alive when they cannot, I feel this is down to build and experience (I have also hit the ceiling cap in terms of pvp points )
Seriously though PVP is a lot of fun, you may enjoy building a specific toon more than you think, I have so many alts its not even funny anymore and am trying to build a killer Dominator now as soon as I can pry myself away from Stalky and Sirens I do die albeit not very often but there are plenty of other pvpers on both sides who also fall into that category (Talin, Agent Matron and many others) When I had my empathy as my main I hated PVP but I love it now
Oh and on defiant I have made a Sirens Call Global Chat room imaginatively called "Global Sirens"
right click on chat window, click on join channel then type Global Sirens
To speak on it after changing channels right click on chat window and tick the relevant channel box. Thats my total working knowledge of Global
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Think also as TG mentioned before there are certain people that get targeted heavily. I know when I am in Sirens, I actively look for defenders and controllers. Anything that helps keep your guys up, I wanna take down. Equally I know that I end up the other end of that stick too, being about as close to a heal/buff bot as villains get. There have been days when I cant make it accross the sea near the villain base before someone is trying to kill me. (Am looking at you Cota!!).
Thanks Stalk-Obot, nice to hear the voice of the nemesis. LOL
I'm enjoying my Stalker alot. I've actually rolled him about 4 times now as I keep tinkering. I eventually settled for Claws (cause I've never had em) and Regen (cause I kept hearing everyone tell me how squishee they were and I thought Regen might compensate a little).
My impressions thus far are good. At first I thought of him as a Scrapper equivalent and started to compare my results with Lady Rogue. But quickly found that to be wrong.
With Lady Rogue I usually perform a semi-tanker like role of taking the agro from the big bads of the group while my blaster friends pick off the minions and then pitch in to help me take down the big bads.
I quickly discovered this is not a tactic that the Stalker cannot use as they are too squishee to "tank" like that. I've now fallen into a hit and run type pattern. It's a different way to play the game. Slower and more thoughtful, relying on patience and planning. I find soloing easier than with any of my other toons (in CoV) bar my Mastermind, but maybe that's just me. (and I haven't tried a Brute yet so I can't comment on them!) A little slower maybe as I can't blitz missions like I can with my Scrapper, but easier due to the hit and run nature and the fact I very very rarely seem to get into trouble. And when I do I run and hide till they get bored and go away. There has been very little death or debt thus far.
I'm not sure I'd have the patience to roll a PvP player. My own gaming passions lie in the team and co-operative play. I was never a big fan of the Arena's either. However I did enjoy teaming up with the lads and lasses the other night and fighting the hotspot battles in Sirens.
Maybe we'll have to hook up in Sirens one day and you can teach me how to kill Stalkers with my Blaster. hehe Or maybe that's just giving away trade secrets.
My problem with Stalkers all along has not really been with their power, hence I never asked for nerfs. But more in my frustration with not being able to retaliate to them after that often devastating AS. And my concern is that you need all kinds of outside help and insps and specific powers to enable you to combat them effectively, and Rogue as a pretty standard blaster doesn't appear to have any of the tools required, and I'd wager most players don't.
In the same hour I was in there I had a couple of tussles with a Corruptor that were stunningly evenly matched. I fought Mechanical Mistress (I think her name was) a few times and I think the honours were fairly even. these battles thrilled me and excited me. They were brilliant and although I ended up in hospital a few times I didn't mind as I felt I gave as good as I got.
But everytime I got hospitalised by you or the other stalker (I think her name was D'Monique or something like that) I got frustrated because I felt helpless to give you a good fight back. And even when you try and stay away from the Stalkers and just do something else like fight other villains or just play the hotspots, the Stalkers always pop up to kill you again. There just didn't seem to be an even footing for us to fight on, hence my frustration. And while I think some of my team soldiered on, I just decided to leave and do something else.
Maybe I should have persevered but it just started to feel like a bad game of hide and seek, where I was doomed to lose all the time.
Even when we could see you, and I'm sure you were aware of us following you around the map at one point, we could do nothing about it. I could see you from the air but was too far away to do anything but shout warnings to my teammates that they were about to be AS'd. And then you were gone again in a flash with us chasing you again. Cat and Mouse.
So that was my frustration.
But it's nice to see you on the boards. Shout me in the game sometime when we have Global Chat and say hi. I might come to Sirens Call and let you butcher me again. LOL
Blueside Level 50's.... Knightingale (Def), Rogue Elevenex (Blast), Lady Rogue (Scrap), Mr Infinity (Tank), Miss Infinity (Troller), Knight.Shade (WS), Knight.Bringer (PB)
Redside Level 50's... Colonel Rogue (Brute), Sergeant Domino (Stalk), F411-OUT (Dom)
Next Project: Psiryn Psi/Psi Cor Global Handle is @Knightingale
Oh and if it helps Knight odds were if it was D'monique and Stalk-obot, then they were prolly all buffed too Am often in group with them. Tho sadly I am the one that gets to feel the tarmac love more often 
Yup it was them. Grrrrrrr!!! 
LOL I think I was 'Gimped' at one point too! hehe
I'll get you yet you pesky stalkers!
Blueside Level 50's.... Knightingale (Def), Rogue Elevenex (Blast), Lady Rogue (Scrap), Mr Infinity (Tank), Miss Infinity (Troller), Knight.Shade (WS), Knight.Bringer (PB)
Redside Level 50's... Colonel Rogue (Brute), Sergeant Domino (Stalk), F411-OUT (Dom)
Next Project: Psiryn Psi/Psi Cor Global Handle is @Knightingale
Hehe if it was frozen, slowed, debuffed etc that was prolly me. Cant be mad at me......I have pigtails
Awww I could never be mad at someone with Pigtails.
I don't think I suffered from any of those ailments though so I think you are safe from my revenge anyhow.
Blueside Level 50's.... Knightingale (Def), Rogue Elevenex (Blast), Lady Rogue (Scrap), Mr Infinity (Tank), Miss Infinity (Troller), Knight.Shade (WS), Knight.Bringer (PB)
Redside Level 50's... Colonel Rogue (Brute), Sergeant Domino (Stalk), F411-OUT (Dom)
Next Project: Psiryn Psi/Psi Cor Global Handle is @Knightingale
Part of the problem is the instinct to flee when hit, now I can 2 shot blasters so you dont have much opportunity to retaliate or to flee due to my ranged attack but if you just get off one attack your power will be devastating due to defiance. I have got someone down to about 5 hps before then they one shotted me due to defiance, its a great inherant power and should be used more, its like a "from hells heart I stab at thee" kind of last ditch attack but does often work.
Oh and things dont always go oour own way, oranised teams especially with controllers can put a crimp on anyones day
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Hmm have to try fix that then
PS. Go team birmingham Am from brum also knight
Hmmmmm yup defiance is a fab last ditch power. Double edged sword though.
There have been times in missions when it has encouraged me to stand and fight it out, in the hope I can just dish out enough power fast enough to survive and defeat the enemy, when in all prudence I should probably bail out and recover. While on the odd occasion it has undoubtedly saved me, I'd wager it's probably accrued me more debt.
It's a state of mind thing. If I didn't have defiance I'd run, but that enticing little bar makes you hesitate and just go for it. Makes me smile anyhow and I don't care about the debt.
Actually as a side topic has anyone else noticed that they don't care about debt once their first toon reaches level 50 ? I thought it would be just with Gale, but it's spread to all my other toons. I actually find it funny now.
But I digress. The problem I was having the other day was that the initial AS would very often leave me stunned. Probably 6 or 7 times out of 10. not sure who was hitting me on those occasions or what power they were using but it was nasty. I'd be clicking retaliatory powers and when they weren't responding I'd notice and have to pop a BF. By that time the stalker was gone.
Hence my Sirens Call addiction to BF's and Insights. I was popping them like sweets eventually hoping that the BF's would stop any stuns and the Insights would help me see. I went through loads. There was a SuperTanker unloading in IP just to supply me with Insps!!!
Eventually I was popping the above and also Lucks and Sturdy's in the hopes they might help somehow.
As an energy blaster I don't have any protection against those stun effects unless I team with an empath. dunno if there is something int he Epics that helps, but that's a moot point anyhow being as Sirens Exemps you.
Also Rogue is more of a Blapper and his ranged abilities since ED are not as they used to be. Snipe is the most powerful tool I have but the activation time is llllloooooonnnnnngggggggg and leaves me vulnerable to other Stalkers. Power blast isn't enough to kill you and doesn't have any sort of stun side effect so you can still get away after the initial shot. Power Burst is too short range. And I don't have Nova exemped down as I am. All the other powers are melee pretty much and the stalkers skip away too fast to use them. In fact I think this is what mostly happened, I'd get a lucky shot off that would hurt the stalker, but they'd just go lick their wounds and try again.
I dunno where Black Medic is today, but I'd be interested to see what his take on the battle was from the Fire and Ice tank point of view. He seemed to be in hospital more than me.
Blueside Level 50's.... Knightingale (Def), Rogue Elevenex (Blast), Lady Rogue (Scrap), Mr Infinity (Tank), Miss Infinity (Troller), Knight.Shade (WS), Knight.Bringer (PB)
Redside Level 50's... Colonel Rogue (Brute), Sergeant Domino (Stalk), F411-OUT (Dom)
Next Project: Psiryn Psi/Psi Cor Global Handle is @Knightingale
*yanks the pigtails*
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Hmm have to try fix that then
PS. Go team birmingham Am from brum also knight
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YAY!!!! Whereabouts ?? Send me a tell in game (I'm usually on as Lady Rogue these days!)
Blueside Level 50's.... Knightingale (Def), Rogue Elevenex (Blast), Lady Rogue (Scrap), Mr Infinity (Tank), Miss Infinity (Troller), Knight.Shade (WS), Knight.Bringer (PB)
Redside Level 50's... Colonel Rogue (Brute), Sergeant Domino (Stalk), F411-OUT (Dom)
Next Project: Psiryn Psi/Psi Cor Global Handle is @Knightingale
I was that Fire Tank. Firey Rose is uber in PvE, not had many deaths so went into SC with a aura of invicibilty which Stalk-abot & especially D'monique quickly vanquished.
I had fun no i had great fun. but i was killed time and time again. I agree with Knight that the As is just too much. not only does it knock 1/3 health down but knocks my toggles off. Once i lose Acrobatics and Plasma i am all but dead.
I killed 5-6 villians mostly MM & brutes but coldn't touch the Stalkers. TBF they paly them brilliantly and i havent a problem with that, just running lvl 40 SO's should give me an advanatge , it didn't.
/cry
Talin pulled my hair! Waaaaaaaa!
(From stirchley, just down the road from Cadbury world in fact)
AS knocking a third off you health makes assassins strike over powered how?
I thikn some people would rather have a Feather Duster power than Assassins Strike 
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Talin pulled my hair! Waaaaaaaa!
(From stirchley, just down the road from Cadbury world in fact)
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Ahhh it's a small world. I live in Longbridge and am currently working at Cadbury's!!!! hehe
Blueside Level 50's.... Knightingale (Def), Rogue Elevenex (Blast), Lady Rogue (Scrap), Mr Infinity (Tank), Miss Infinity (Troller), Knight.Shade (WS), Knight.Bringer (PB)
Redside Level 50's... Colonel Rogue (Brute), Sergeant Domino (Stalk), F411-OUT (Dom)
Next Project: Psiryn Psi/Psi Cor Global Handle is @Knightingale
Well if it helps to give some idea, a broadsword scrapper can 1 shot me if they crit, and an energy blaster can snipe about 85% of my health
And bear in mind most of the stalker are running on +3 SO's.
hmmmmm stalker tbh is quite weak AT and has nothing else to do than constantly try to land a kill from single left out players. A stalker is doomed in teams that know what they are doing and i usually just ignore the stalkers until nothing else is left to kill. Then all i do is trap em which is the easiest thing to do cause they need melee. The other major disadvantage is that all stalkers now seem to go for the energy set to avoid tp foe
well i got news for them and here is how to take them down. Use intimidate as an open move on them and a -fly move and they are pinned on the ground helpless from that point on they are just cannon fodder for the team. I usually not care about stalkers when i got an empath on team since the 3rchrg cm that is the current max efficiency for pvp for empath allows us an insane amount of cm stacking for the tp belt...so we pretty much see them all. Stalker is actually a doomed set in team PvP with very limited use to scrap away lonely targets. In a compact team this is highly unlikely.